If you have a Wii or a DS, I want to have your friend code! From Mario Kart, to Pokemon, I would like to have yours and I’ll give you mine! The top two games to have friend codes is Mario Kart Wii and Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Remember, with my Mario Kart and Brawl has two friend codes, one for the modified Wii and the regular Wii (yes, I have two Wiis). What can you expect when playing against me on my hacked Mario Kart… click here from my perspective, or here from a player’s perspective (its not the same race). Of course, I can help you gain VR points by making go faster by doing a Thundercloud Glitch, in which I bump into you with a Thundercloud and I do the rest to make your speed increase. So again, with Mario Kart Wii and Brawl, be sure to add both friend codes since I might be on one of them on a time.
My Brawl is little hacked, but its only at my end because they are texture hacks; such as Ike is Roy, Rob is Wall-E, and Ganondorf is Santa Claus.
I will establishing friend codes for other games, such as Pokémon Battle Revolution in the upcoming days, but if you have the game, tell me the friend code! I’m going to start playing more games then before because I am now out of school (what a sad way to put it).
Also, I am in the process of retiring my original Nintendo DS and transition into the DSi I got when it came out during the weekend of I-CON. So if my friend codes do change, I will let you know, as of right now, everything seems to be fine.
To see a list of friend codes I have, click here. Please contact me for friend codes not listed.
Vidgle’s New York Anime Festival coverage has begun! To meet expertise, we will be updating our videos twice a week instead of one (from Otakon) in an experiment for next year’s Con Goer coverages. The twentieth episode of the Con Goer is up right now, and that’s the Friday Out and About edition. We will also bring you the World Cosplay Summit panel in its entirely this Sunday!
All I have to say is “wow” about our Otakon coverage two weeks ago. As the leader with four reporters, four photographers, producers, cameramen, and a few contributors; we had a total of over 3,000 photos and eight hours of video coverage! Otakon marks as the largest coverage that we’ve done with our “Con Goer” series; Con Goer is the most viewed series on Vidgle. The photos has been posted, and the video podcast episodes are coming in weekly since Otakon.
I would like to thank Jen, Sarah, I-hsiu, Kim, and especially Jon Ko who have taken pictures of Otakon like mad! Most of the pictures are up, but the ones missing are most of the masquerade photos. Those will be up very soon. You can take a look at our pictures here.
With the video podcast coverage, we are getting many hits with our current two episodes. We are planning to launch the Friday episode in a few days! There will also be a Saturday and Sunday Out and About coverage, and a wrap up report in the upcoming weeks. We will have videos of the Phoenix Wright Trail panel and JamProject’s press conference as well. Again, you can watch the videos here.
We did run into a mic issue when we were interviewing with a Mr. Game and Watch cosplayer (which will be on the next episode). It turns out that one of our reporter microphones died so we got stuck with one and prayed that the second one won’t die for the entire weekend. We normally bring extra microphones but the connector part from the microphone to the camera broke, so a microphone replacement won’t do and a trip to the Best Buy down the street won’t do either since the part is not found in stores.
We will be publishing a review of my Otakon experience in the upcoming week on the Vidgle blog and everyone else will be a writing a response as well.
Our next con coverage for the Con Goer is New York Anime Festival in September. The final con coverage for this year will be MangaNEXT, which will take place on Halloween weekend. We will then have the “Best of 2008″ in December as the reporters and crew sit down at our studios and discuss their favorite cons of this past year.
The door that everyone has entered into the basement of nerd heaven, which says WRAJ Internet Radio for the past 4 years, is being replaced today. In the WRAJ Internet Radio photo gallery, the image above of the door has been the top 5 most viewed image in the photo gallery.
Because of the longevity of the door for the past 18 years, the door is beginning to rust by the floods we had earlier this decade. We will miss this door, as it was our symbol for WRAJ and the friendship around me and my friends. We will miss it dearly.
Last summer was the worst, but this summer it was about the same. However, nothing can’t beat last summer as the worst summer I can ever have. In summer 2007, I worked nonstop and I wasn’t able to hangout with friends.
This summer though is different from last summer. Though I have had less work due to the crashing economy, I was able to have more time to hangout with friends. However, this entire summer, something on my mind kept bothering me to be with friends.
One was a question, “what am I going to do in a year from now?” Asked by many college students like myself, I don’t know exactly what I’ll be doing a year from now. There are many opportunities I can take but I just don’t know which one to pick.
Another question I ask myself, “do I really have time to relax in fall?” If you are unaware, I will need to take an internship for college, which honestly I won’t have time for. During the upcoming school year, not only I will be doing work for school, but also run a company which is expanding. A new division is formed for t-shirts called Save Point Designs. Currently, I have decided to find a way to be excused from the internship program and replace it with another class.
Lastly, what some of you may find funny, is dating. Did you know that in the last 4 years, I asked out over 20 girls on a date and they turned me down. Its kinda embarrassing for me, but yet I know some of you may find it funny. It upsets me now as I look back. Some of the girls who I ask out still talks to me, but most of them stopped talking to me while I try to talk to them back. I just don’t randomly ask a girl out, I let them get to know me and I want to get to know them; it seems like it doesn’t work that way in the real world. Of course the top 2 excuses that are mostly used are either “I know alot and I don’t want to hurt our relationship” and “i don’t feel like dating now” (which of course they go out on a date within the next week after they say that to me). For some reason, most of the time I don’t believe of what they say. Feeling rejected is hard, but 20 times is a big, huge “OUCH!” “I don’t get why you are rejected so many times,” a good friend of mine said to me. “You are an interesting guy with so much personality, experience, talent, and knowledgeable.” The question will always be unsolved for me and I’ll never find a “true” answer.
This has what has been bothering me lately since no one wants to talk to me in person or even on the phone about how I’ve been feeling lately. I would appreciate a friend to talk to me one-on-one with this, since I can’t seem to catch you.
Just like other Google maniacs, I started to use Lively since Wednesday was the launched date. Lively is Google’s version of Second Life, which I have used several times and I just hate the registration part and remembering who I am. I created my avatar (as seen above) and created a room execlusively for Vidgle and WRAJ. Though, it is plan and white, we hope to have the room crowded by WRAJ and Vidgle fans soon.
So far its pretty good, very laggy (of course, Fred, Brian, and I always blame Cablevision for that end). But as I still stay away from 3D chat rooms, I see Lively a bit user friendly. And yes, the login is easier, just use your Google Account (or Gmail account) to login so its not that hard to remember the login, which I have that problem alot with Second Live.
You can go to my room by clicking here. If you have a Lively room, send me the room number (or the URL) and I’ll take a trip there one day.
Two weekends ago, I’ve attended another fine Wicked Event called Totally Normal Event (TNE for short and sweet). The event was once again operated by “the” Jeff Mach and was also a charity event for the SPARC Summer program (www.sparcsummer.org). So far this year, the Jeff Mach events were ranked highest for WRAJ and Vidgle, (Wicked Faire being first, New York Comic Con second, TNE ranking third, beating Long Island’s based I-CON in forth).
Just like the Wicked Faire back in February which we reported from, TNE was a bit better with the hotel. The faire was a bit more spacious than at the Holiday Inn for the Wicked Faire. The crew who were on assignment, Jen, Fred, James (new), Fred, Kim (new), and myself; had a great time.
“Everyone should go to a Jeff Mach event,” which alot of interviewers said to us in front of a Vidgle camera. Jen and James were reporting and got a chance to interview with Voltaire and the band Freezepop (and the con-goers as well). We hope to the interviews up by Friday (or maybe even earlier). Fred will be having his own version of the Con Goer called “The Fred Show” which will be premiering on Vidgle, and the show will actually let the viewers see behind the scenes of Vidgle’s most popular show.
Complete coverage of the Totally Normal Event can be found on the Vidgle site by clicking here, which includes pictures, videos, and blog posts.
The next convention I might be attending is MetroCon in Tampa, FL. We will not be doing a video report from there but we will be taking pictures! But the next convention with reporting and nonstop pictures will be Otakon in Baltimore, MD. Jesse (aka Optimus Prime), Jon, Jen, Louis (aka Mega-Tron), and Fred will be reporting!
I’m serious, I have said this and I’m saying it again, “I’m Not Gay.” I’m neither Bi curious. I don’t know what else to say.
I have said this a bunch times to my friends because they believe I am gay, a few has even asked me out and I told them the truth.
But just because I’m willing to do something, such as “I want to bake a cake with Sarah,” doesn’t make me gay. Maybe, if you thought about it, it might be because I just like baking a cake with one of my best friends, thats all. I’ve baked cakes with her in the past and I had such a great time talking to her.
If some of my friends aren’t aware, I am looking for that special girl (ok, its been five years now and still nothing). But at least I am a patient person, not using online dating, singles gathering, or whatever; I’m waiting for someone who will come into my life who gives me that “wow, she’s the one.” That gives me an idea to write a romantic novel, I’ll put that on my agenda.
Wow, I did a lot of things last weekend. I first went to Baltimore for a conference, which is mainly about expanding my company Jenthony, which owns and operates WRAJ Internet Radio and Vidgle. After entering a new chapter earlier this year with podcasting, now it will be entering a new chapter later this year. It will be the launch of SavePointDesigns, which we will be designing and selling t-shirts online and at conventions we plan to attend. I hope to talk more about this exciting new chapter in a few weeks.
It was Jen’s birthday on Sunday. Jon, Chris, Jeff, Merideth, Fred, Mike, and Sarah was over to celebrate, and so was the rest of the family! Above is a picture of a cake Sarah made, it is suppose to be the Final Smash Ball from Super Smash Bros. Brawl (and yes, it can be the spinning pinwheel of death).
To see pictures from Jen’s birthday party, click here.
Of course, if you use a video-podcast catcher software, you should have received the video report by now if you are subscribed to the Vidgle or Con-Goer Podcast Feed. Click here to learn more about the video podcast feed.
I hope you enjoy it. The next Con we are reporting will be at the Totally Normal Event this June.
